Can anyone top Eddie Vedder when it comes to fostering unlikely musical convergences that span generations, let alone being a key link between The Beatles and Ramones?
That is — to invoke the title of an obscure 1997 Pearl Jam song — hard to imagine.
In 2002, Vedder inducted the Ramones into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in the ballroom of New York's ritzy Waldorf Astoria hotel. The Pearl Jam singer happily spent 17 minutes singing the pioneering punk-rock band's praises to the sold-out audience, which included a large contingent of music-biz executives in tuxedos and evening gowns.
